Description of Dedicated Servers

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 principal sorts - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate plenty of clients and thus the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to perform everything you desire without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your firm has a regularly visited web site, or simply has very special server architecture requirements, the most relevant option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You are given full root access and can utilize 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting providers, including us at Webtanium, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from depending on your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you wish to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you wish to grant root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we provide does not include full root-level access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who runs numerous web pages that require lots of resources, but wants to administer the web sites, databases and e-mail addresses through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root privileges and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Webtanium the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something accidentally.